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Acute Threat to the Social Self: Shame, Social Self-esteem, and Cortisol Activity

From the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (T.L.G., N.A., J.L.F.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (M.E.K.).

View larger version (8K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Timeline of session activities and psychological and physiological measurements.

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Mean (± SE) pre- and post-stressor scores on emotion and self-esteem measures in SOC-EVAL and NON-EVAL stressor conditions.

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Mean (± SE) HR, SBP, and DBP values in SOC-EVAL and NON-EVAL stressor conditions across the session.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 4. Mean (± SE) salivary cortisol values in SOC-EVAL and NON-EVAL stressor conditions across the session.

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 5. Mean (± SE) pre- to poststressor salivary cortisol increases in "above median change" social self-esteem and shame groups (ie, those participants that showed changes in social self-esteem and shame from pre- to poststressor that were above the median) and "below median change" groups (ie, those participants that showed changes in these psychological responses that were below the median) in the SOC-EVAL stressor condition.